I took a look around this site and it doesn't look like we have done this yet...mods please delete it if I missed something.
I'm conflicted about this. In a way I'm glad the video was released, it gets people talking, especially when the ND was by a popular personality. But I'm also kinda shocked it was released to begin with. It's easy to dog-pile the guy as the internet tend to do in these situations. It was obviously a bonehead move. Really, really stupid.
But.....I also firmly believe that the longer you handle firearms, the more you shoot (which for members here is much more than most shooters), the more likely you are to have an ND. Nobody can be perfect 100% of the time. The goal obviously is 100% perfection when it comes to firearm safety, but it has and will continue to happen to even very checked out guys. I am OCD about safety and I try to train and pick gear to try to limit the likelihood that it may happen. I go as far as to review video of myself and make adjustments if I see issues. I feel like I am FAR safer than 99% of the people on the range on any given day. But I also shoot much more than 99% of those shooters. And I don't shoot nearly as much as some members here! Thankfully I have never had an ND, and I really work hard to never have one. But the only way I could guarantee never to have an ND is to never shoot again. Being a realist, I know that I'm not perfect and being tired, sick, distracted, whatever, can and do cause ND's. It's something I think about every time I get on the line.
It's good Haley was following at least one of the four rules and nobody, including himself, was seriously hurt.
My last thought in all this is; if I were a trainer (as some of you guys here are), I would have serious second thoughts about working with Panteao productions. Releasing the video, and not having control of their footage, even after their "talent" asked that the footage not be released, shows a serious breach of professionalism in my opinion.